Show Notes
Mercury Summer Theater of the Air || (04) Jane Eyre [by Charlotte Bronte] | June 28, 1946 The half-hour radio play compressed Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 Victorian classic, focusing on Jane's arrival at the dark and mysterious Thornfield Hall, her growing romantic attachment to the brooding Edward Rochester, and the shocking, disruptive revelation of his insane wife, Bertha Mason, locked away on the third floor. #janeeyre #CharlotteBronte
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